Category Archives: Wiki Travel

When your town’s name really is just a seed to a elaborate murder mystery…your town is Dead Women Crossing in Oklahoma. The origin of the name involves divorce, prostitutes, murder, and even suicide. Not necessarily in the order one would … Continue reading →

It’s long overdue for Somebodyisfromhere.com to create an Arkansas search tag. Done. And to do it Somebodyisfromhere.com found the town that may lead the land in percentage of (former) population that’s in the college football hall of fame. The Wiki … Continue reading →

It’s Halloween season so it’s time to uncover one of the country’s more gruesome names: Slaughter Beach. Often times, when looking up a cool sounding name, the answer is not as interesting as it would first appear. For example, one … Continue reading →

Ahh a town name that the creators of Godfather would be proud of. Horseheads is a town in Chemung County, New York, United States. The population was 19,485 at the 2010 census. The name of the town is derived from … Continue reading →

Somebodyisfromhere.com is not above pandering. At one point the state with the most site views on Somebodyisfromhere.com was Washington. So hello, Washintonians, do you know where the town Puyallup got its name? Named after the Puyallup Tribe of Native Americans, Puyallup … Continue reading →

Manns Choice seems like a poorly spelled and punctuated name for an ill-advised happy hour from a bygone era. It’s also a town name. In 1848, Congressman Job Mann pressured to have a post office at an unnamed village in Harrison Township. … Continue reading →

It’s not surprising that Nevadans – with their cowboy streak – might have a roguish twinkle in their eyes that says, “We are going to do what we want and we are going to do it our way.” In Jackpot … Continue reading →

It would seem fairly obvious where Geneva got its name from. It’s located in a state, New York, that was named after a foreign city after all. As foreign cities go to be named after, Geneva isn’t too bad. It’s … Continue reading →

Half Day sounds like what a town would be called if the movie Office Space was re-imagined as a cartoon for third graders. Alas, we don’t even have to be that creative because the name already exists. Half Day is … Continue reading →

This town ain’t big enough for the two of us. How about that for a town origin? That’s what you get in Arizona. “According to the legend, the city was named after a marathon poker game between C.E. Cooley and … Continue reading →